Stephen Colbert discusses suffering, loss, empathy, gratitude, Christianity, and more with Anderson Cooper: You said “what punishment of gods are not gifts. Do you really believe that?” @andersoncooper, choking back tears, asks Stephen Colbert, as they discuss grief. “Yes,” replies the comedian. “It’s a gift to exist and with existence comes suffering. There’s no escaping… Read More Stephen Colbert on Suffering: God Does It Too, We’re Really Not Alone

Millennial editor Robert Christian writes: On the Motherly podcast, actress Caterina Scorsone of Grey’s Anatomy describes how she came to realize that she was loving everyone, including herself, for “absolutely the wrong reason.” “I was loving people for their external qualities and not for their essence,” she said. She had believed that she loved her… Read More How Having a Child with Down Syndrome Transformed Caterina Scorsone’s Understanding of Love

via La Stampa: Your Holiness, you hope that “Europe might once again be the dream of the Founding Fathers.” What are your expectations? “Europe cannot and must not break apart. It is a historical, cultural as well as a geographical unity. The dream of the Founding Fathers had substance because it was an implementation of… Read More Pope Francis: “We Hear Speeches That Resemble Those of Hitler in 1934”

Franklin Strong writes: On April 30th, far-right Catholic author Taylor Marshall and his cohost, author Timothy Gordon, posted a YouTube video as part of their regular #TnT chat series called “Why do Secularists and Mohammedans Unite?” The plan, Marshall explained, was to speak about what they saw as a strange alliance between “politically correct secularists”… Read More Alt-Catholics’ Connections to the White Nationalists of the Alt-Right